Followup: Twitter Thoughts
As usual, I was messing around with a new WordPress plugin from Sphere (you can see the new link at the bottom of each post) and I decided to test it on my Twitter post. It did what it was designed to do and found a bunch of Twitter-related blog links, which, on a lark, I decided to open. What I found amazing was the variety of reactions that Twitter seems to be getting from different people.
Little did I realize that more and more people would use Twitter in ways that actually ignores the question “What are you doing?”
After starting to use twitter (a micro-blogging site that allows people to write small messages via phone, web and a number of applications), I am suddenly in the same situation where I am missing a prime social opportunity. Now that I a less awkward, more worldly (almost), it struck me how antisocial this all was.
Folks, you’re already Twittering and you don’t even know it! You’re just using the wrong tool do to it. Pick the red pill.
[Jeff] Pulver excitedly brought me over to meet an amazing guy named David Troy, who it turned out has 11,600 followers on Twitter. (That means they subscribe to and read the 140-character-or-less Twitter texts he sends out when he feels like it – some call it micro-blogging.)